Other Transnational Opportunities

Birmingham City Council’s European and International Affairs (EIA) team advice on future EU funding opportunities including:

Interreg 5 (2014-2020), promoting cross-border, transnational and inter-regional cooperation of various entities, institutions and companies on relevant matters, the INTERREG programme is an important tool for European regional development.

Erasmus +, beginning on 1 January 2014 and replacing current funding programmes run by the European Commission in the area of education, training, youth and sport.

Creative Europe will replace the MEDIA, MEDIA Mundus and Culture programmes from 2014 and has a total budget of € 1.46 billion (2014-2020).

COSME, an EU programme for the competitiveness of enterprises and SMEs running from 2014 to 2020 with a planned budget of €2.3bn.

Horizon 2020, designed to implement the ‘Innovation Union’, a Europe 2020 flagship initiative to secure Europe’s global competitiveness. It is the EU’s new programme for research and innovation to create new growth and jobs in Europe with a budget of €70 billion for the 2014 to 2020 period.